Examining the Purposeful Consensus-Making by Ibn Timiyyah for Decreasing the Place of the Prophet

The highest place in the view of the Muslims is the eminent place of his majesty the Last Prophet (SAWA) which has no alternative. On the basis of authoritative and decisive documents among the two Sects denoting the purgatory living of the prophets, there is no difference in the Prophet’s place before and after death so that all the Muslims consider being present by his illuminated grave equal as being present in his illuminated presence in the time of his material life and they enthusiastically go to his pilgrimage and pray God there. However, in the seventh/fourteenth century Ibn Timiyyah al-Harrani tackled some views that not only has ignored the public Muslim believes in pilgrimage and expressing politeness and courtesy for the grave of the Prophet but also has often claimed consensus on them. The important question is that whether Ibn Timiyyah’s claim for scholars’ consensus on these views is true? With a descriptive-analytic method, this article discusses this topic and, on the basis of the Sunni works, prove the falsehood of the majority of the abovementioned claims.